1 Kings 15 · Verse 14

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
1 Kings 15:14, King James Version

1 Kings 15:14 in other translations

BSBThe high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
WEBBut the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.
ASVBut the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
YLTand the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days,
DARBYBut the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
BBEThe high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
WebsterBut the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

What does 1 Kings 15:14 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The high places were not removed - He was not able to make a thorough reformation; this was reserved for his son Jehoshaphat. Asa's heart was perfect - He worshipped the true God, and zealously promoted his service; see on 1Kgs 15:3 (note). And even the high places which he did not remove were probably those where the true God alone was worshipped; for that there were such high places the preceding history amply proves, and Jarchi intimates that these were places which individuals had erected for the worship of Jehovah.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:9-24

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have…

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1 Kings 15:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהַבָּמ֖וֹתve.ha.ba.Motand the high placesH1116
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
סָ֑רוּSa.ruthey were removedH5493
רַ֣קrakonlyH7535
לְבַב\־le.vav-[the] heart ofH3824
אָסָ֗א'a.Sa'AsaH609
הָיָ֥הha.Yahit wasH1961
שָׁלֵ֛םsha.LemcompleteH8003
עִם\־'im-withH5973
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
יָמָֽיו\׃ya.Mavdays hisH3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 15:14

  • 1 Kings 22:43

    And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

  • 1 Kings 8:61

    Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

  • 1 Kings 15:3

    And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kings 12:3

    But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:17-18

    But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 2 Kings 14:4

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chronicles 14:3

    For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

  • 2 Chronicles 14:5

    Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • 2 Kings 15:4

    Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

  • 1 Kings 11:4

    For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:9

    For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

  • 2 Chronicles 25:2

    And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the high places.
22:43; 2Ki 12:3; 14:4; 15:4; 2Ch 14:3,5
was perfect.
3; 8:61; 11:4; 2Ch 15:17,18; 16:9; 25:2

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Context

  • 1 Kings 15:13

    And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

  • 1 Kings 15:14

    But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

  • 1 Kings 15:15

    And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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1 Kings 15:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Empero los altos no se quitaron: con todo, el corazón de Asa fué perfecto para con Jehová toda su vida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Mais les hauts lieux ne furent pas ôtés; cependant le cœur d’Asa fut parfait avec l’ Éternel, tous ses jours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Höhen aber wichen nicht; doch das Herz Asas war ungeteilt mit Jehova alle seine Tage.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
excelsa autem non abstulit. Verumtamen cor Asa perfectum erat cum Domino cunctis diebus suis: